Paracucumis Mortensen, 1925b

O’Loughlin, P. Mark, Mackenzie, Melanie, Paulay, Gustav & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2014, Four new species and a new genus of Antarctic sea cucumbers with taxonomic reviews of Cladodactyla, Pseudocnus, Paracucumidae and Parathyonidium (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72, pp. 31-61 : 55

Paracucumis Mortensen, 1925b

Key 2

Diagnosis (emended). Body form cylindrical, elongate, narrow, vermiform, posterior tapered; body cover of high domed plates; up to 15 dendritic tentacles, ventral pair and possibly some others small; tube feet distributed around body, may be rudimentary and inconspicuous; plates covering body wall imbricate or contiguous, some multi-layered into a high dome-like elevation.

Type species. Thyone turricata Vaney, 1906 (= Paracucumis antarctica Mortensen, 1925b by O’Loughlin 2002) (type locality South Orkney Islands) (monotypic)

Remarks. Paracucumis is reviewed above in the Remarks and Key for Paracucumidae .